HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.0 Getting Started Guide

Figure 2-1 HP SMH: Set WBEM Credentials Page
On this page, you can set one user name and password combination for all virtual machines, or
you can set them individually for one or more virtual machines. If you set the credentials for
some but not all of the individual systems, VM Manager does not collect utilization data and
operating system information for the excluded systems.
You can also save the user name and password entries in obscured format in the file system.
This allows you to use the same setting each time you enter VM Manager through HP SMH. To
save these entries, select the Save user name and password settings in the file system check
box, and then click OK. This information is obfuscated before being stored.
If you do not want to provide this security information for the current session, click Cancel. VM
Manager continues without collecting this data. If you do not want to provide this additional
data for subsequent uses of VM Manager, and you do not want to be prompted for it on each
entry into VM Manager, make sure all entries on the page are blank, select the check box to save
the credentials to file, and click OK. Empty credentials are stored, and this prevents the WBEM
credentials page from being displayed on subsequent entries into VM Manager.
If you require the additional security provided by certificate validation, you can turn on SSL
certificate validation by checking the Require trusted certificates check box. If this box is
checked, you must store the valid certificates for the virtual machines in a keystore on the VM
Host to indicate that connections to those virtual machines are trusted; otherwise, some
information is not displayed by VM Manager. For example, if a certificate is missing, utilization
meters are labeled No Data. For more information about trusted certificates and how to store
them in a keystore on the VM Host, see “Trusted Certificates” (page 23).
You can use the basic features of the HP SMH version of VM Manager without exposing user
credentials or configuration data on the local network. In this case, you see a subset of the potential
information that the VM Manager can display. To have all data displayed, the following steps
are required.
Setting Security Credentials 21